Cuff-link



F. S. CARR.

CUFF LINK.- APPLICATION FILEDYJUNE 2n 1919.

Paten tedSept. 14,1920;

Invewior: Bed 8. (Tara, 3 QM fi s UNITED STATE S PATENT. OFFIC FRED S. CARR, 0F NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TOOARiR FASTENER,

COMPANY, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, A. CORPORATION OF MAINE.

CUFF-mag;

Application filed June 27,

T 0 aZZwhO-m it may concern 1 Be it known that I, FRED S. CARR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newton, in the county of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, whose postofiice address is care of Carr Fastener Company, Cambridge, 'Massachu-setts, have invented an Improvement in Cuff-Links, of which the following description, in connection with the. accompanying'drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawiDgs'representing like parts.

This invention pertains to improvement in cuff links.

Referring to the drawings, which show a preferred embodiment of my invention Figure 1 is a section, partly in elevation, through a cuff link and cuff;

Fig. 2 is a section, partly in elevation, on the line 22 of Fig. 3, the head of the stud being omitted;

Fig. 3 is a section, partly in elevation, on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing a modification of my invention more fully described hereinafter;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing a second modification of my invention, and is more fully described hereinafter; and

Fig. 6 is a section, partly in elevation, on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawings, I have shown in Fig. 1 adjacent marginal portions of a cuff 7 having the usual cuff-button receiving holes 8, 8 connected by a cuff link including the shank portion 9, preferably, as shown, having enlarged portions 10, 1O bearing against the insides of the cuff, and having head portions 11 and reduced neck portions 12 adapted to be passed through the button receiving holes 8, 8 and then to have secured thereon suitable snap fastener socket means herein shown as including an elongated casing 13 having resilient means therein typified by the jaws 14, 14 of a spring 15 and preferably provided with a back plate 16. The back plate 16 is preferably provided with an elongated stud-receiving aperture 17 adapted to permit tipping of the socket relative to the stud in either of two directions longitudinally of the jaws 14, 14. 'When the socket is entered. over the head of the stud, the curved outer s the stu spring the jaws 1%,

v specification of Letters r atent Patented S ept 1 4,

1919. Serial No. 307,110.

.14 apart, and when saidijaws are opposite the groove '12 they snap together, thereby engaging the head of the stud with the shank thereof. In the preferred form of my invention shown in Fig. 1, both of the outside head's of the stud are constructedv as before described, both being detachable, the stud as a whole and separated being resolved into three parts,-two sockets (these being the heads of the cuff button as a whole) and "a shank carrying the two stud portions for'fengageme'nt with "the before described headfor socket portions.

v In the preferred forin' of my invention, tipping of the socket in a direction longitudinal of the ja'w'means 14 causes'the stud to wedge the jaws apart sufficiently to permit separation of the engaged'parts, Tipping strain in a direction trans erse to the jaws will produce no effect, and for this reason it is preferred that the socket be arranged as shown with the aws 14, 14 eX- tending in a general direction parallel to the marginal portions 18, 18 of the cuff.'

In Fig.4, I have shown a modification of my invention wherein the shank portion 9 is formed integral with the head 19, the head 20 only being separable This provides a twopiece cuff link in which the co-acting separable portions are preferably constructed in much the same way as described in connection with Fig 1, but in which the shank portion 9 is constructed throughout of suffi-, ciently small diameter to pass through the button receiving hole 21.

In Fig. 5, I have shown a three-part button in which the construction shown in Fig. 1 is reversed, the stud portions'being integral with or permanently connected to the outside heads 22, 22 of the link and the cooperating socket members 23, 23 being connected together and being located between the marginal portions of the cuff. Where this construction is used, the studs secured to the heads 22, 22 may be first entered from the outside of the cuff, after which they may be pressed into the coiiperating socket members 23, 23 which are constructed in the same general way as previously described in connection with Fig. 1. If desired, the socket parts may be circular in cross-section as shown in Fig. 6, and may be formed of a casing 24 containing springs 25, 25 separated by spacing means which m y nclu e th fl d ring 2a he were even changes inthe mode of operation, may

be made without departing from the scope of my invention, which is be'st'defined in the following claims: I

1. A cuff link comprising a shank portion carrying'at at least oneend thereof a stud for passage through a cuff but't'onhole', and

a snap fastenersocket for engagement with said stud on the opposite side of the cuff from said shank portion, said socket separable from said stud by relative tipping of stud and socket.

2. A cuff link comprising, combination, separable parts including a shank portion carrying at opposite ends thereof stud portions for introduction throug'hthe cufl huttonholes, and two snap fastener sockets for engagement with said studs exterior to the cuff, said sockets forming the heads of said cuff link, said sockets separable, from said studs by relative tipping of said studs and sockets.

8. A cuff link comprising, in combination, separable parts including a shank portion carrying at opposite ends thereof' stud portionsforintroduction through" the cuff buttonholes, and two snap fastener sockets for engagement with said studs exterior to the cuff, said sockets forming the heads of said cuff link, and said shank having? enlarged portions adjacent each end for engagement with the interior surfaces of the cuff.

4. A cuff link comprising, in combination, two stud elements and two snap fastener socket elements, two of said elements permanently secured together, said elements presenting three separable parts, said parts I separable from each other by relative tipping movement and separable from. the cuff by passage of said studs only through the cufi link holes.

5. A cuff link comprising, in combination, a shank portion having at at least one end thereof a stud and a cooperating socket providing resilient jaw means, said stud and socket being separable by relative tipping movement in a direction longitudinal of said jaw means only. v

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

' FRED S. CARR. 

